Arrr, a brave man going for a full distro on one of these machines (I'm typing this on a 440CDX running as an X terminal)...
I can't really help with the problem appart from to say that I had weird problems putting MDK 9.0 on it a while ago when I was mucking about with a problem for a customer, and needed an MDK machine. It claimed that a bunch of RPM's were missing from CD2, but they were plainly there.. I changed to doing a network based install and all the problems went away, even though the CD set worked fine in another machine,and MD5sum'd OK. We should start a brotherhood of slow laptop users :-). On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 20:13, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Hi dudes, > > I got a free laptop from my brother-in-law and I'm striking a few minor > difficulties/anomalies installing Mandrake 9.0 or 9.1 on it... > > Its a Toshie 440CDX Satellite Pro, 133MHz Pentium/MMX, 48MB RAM, 6GB > disk, PCMCIA modem and near-death 12.1 inactive-matrix screen! Not > exactly state-of-art, but still a runner...I've binned Win98 and wiped > the hard drive clean... > > When I install MDK either 9.0 or 9.1 I notice that when its time to > select packages (individually) some are missing from the category they > come under (notably stuff from discs 2 and 3)... > > I'm warned the system has low resources, and that text mode install > might be better, but no more errors come up during installation of > programs. Other than that it runs, albeit slowly with KDE 3.1 ;-) > > Anyone got any ideas as to why rpmdrake cannot see these RPM's? > > Kind regards, > > Chris Wilkinson, Chch
